Re:Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like ...
by majormajor on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @03:37PM
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> But, most seem to declare that the work is owned at least in part by the funding source, which seems fair to me.
There's a dark side here - and the common refrain of "if paid for with public money, it should be in the public domain" - of normalizing the power of capital holders compared to the people doing the work. Most of the time, that idea is going to have bad public outcomes, so I don't like playing into it with regard to journals and research publications.
There's a dark side here - and the common refrain of "if paid for with public money, it should be in the public domain" - of normalizing the power of capital holders compared to the people doing the work. Most of the time, that idea is going to have bad public outcomes, so I don't like playing into it with regard to journals and research publications.